Kengo Kuma & Associates

Toshima City Office

Toshima City Office

Toshima City Office

Kengo Kuma and Associates

TYPE
Commercial › Office> Landscape + Planning › Urban Green Space>Residential › Apartment

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2015

SIZE
1,000,000 +

LOCATION
Toshima, Japan

Toshima City Office
Toshima City Office

The building is a new type of complex that accommodates the Toshima City Office, an apartment house and a vertically extended garden.

We aimed at architecture like a single giant tree. Leaves are our “atoms” here to softly cover the building.

Toshima City Office
Toshima City Office
Toshima City Office

We named them Eco Veil, which consists of solar power panel, recycled wooden louver and greening panel.

Like the concept of the entire building, the vertical garden “Toshima no Mori (Forest of Toshima)” is also an “open” facility to the public, and it revives the town’s vegetation to connect its people and nature, where even a little stream runs through.

Toshima City Office
Toshima City Office

The forest also plays the role of an oasis at the center of the city, and a site for children’s nature study.

Kengo Kuma & Associates
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Kengo Kuma & Associates
2 Chome-24-8 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan